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Show 61 PERSONS WERE LYNCHED IN 1920 i The Number of Lynchlngs for 1920 Was 22 Less Than In 1919. Of This Number 52 Were Lynched in the South and Only Nine in the North. The following figures of lynching were compiled by Monroe N. Work of f the Department of Records and Re search of the Tuskogee Institute, an ' institution for colored young men and women in Tuskogee, Ala. There were 66 instances in which officers of the law prevented lynching. Of. these, 10 were in northern states and 46 were in southern states. In 42 of the eases, the prisoners were removed re-moved or the guards were augmented, or ether precautions taken. In 14 in-r in-r t.ances armed force was used to repel tho wouid-be lynchers, la four of these instances the mobs v?re fired upon and as a result, seven of the attackers at-tackers were killed and several wounded. There were 61 persons lynched in 1920. Of these, 52 were in the south and nine in the north and west. This in 22 less than the number, 83, for the year 1919. Of those lynched Si were nesroes and eight were whites. , One of Hose put to death wa3 n. negrj woman. Eighteen, or less than one-' ' - third of those put to death, were -charged with rape or attempted rape. ; Three of the victims were' burned to death. The charges against those burned to death were: rape and mur- der, 1; killing landlord in a dispute, 2. The offenses charged the whites were: murder, 5; insulting woman, 1; no charge except being a foreigner, 1; killing officer of the law, 1. The offenses of-fenses charged against the negroes were: murder, 5; attempted murder, 4; killing officer of the law, 5; killing landlord in dispute, 6; rape, 15; attempted at-tempted rape, 3; assisting fugitive to escape, 3; wounding another, 2; in-eulting in-eulting woman, 2; knocking down guard, escaping from chain gang and then returning and surrendering, 2; Jumping labor contract, 1; threaten-f threaten-f lng to kill man, 1; cutting a man in a fight, 1; for receiving stay of death sentence because another confessed crime, 1; peeping through window, at woman, 1; insisting on voting, 1. The states in which lynchings occurred oc-curred and the number in each state are as follows: Alabama, 7; Arkansas, Arkan-sas, 1; California, 3; Florida, 7; Georgia, 9; Illinois, 1; Kansas, 1; Kentucky, Ken-tucky, 1; Minnesota, 3; Mississippi, 7; Missouri, 1; North Carolina, 3; Ohio, l; Oklahoma, 3; South Carolina, 1; Texas, 10; Virginia, 1; West Virginia, Vir-ginia, 1. |